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Soil is a fragile, finite resource. How societies manage their soils can directly impact their environments and may even be a determining factor in the long-term success or failure of a society. Soils, Society and the Environment focuses mainly on soil as the primary source of food and fiber (such as cotton and wood). Growing plants in soil is the ...

A Bangladeshi child eats a bowl of rice. An American child plays with a plastic doll. A woman in Finland talks on a cell phone. A man in Zimbabwe fills his car with gasoline. A Japanese woman reads a ...

Seminar summary report, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1995This publication features the working group reports presented at the seminar on thematic, regional (Southern Africa, Eastern Africa, and West and Central Africa) and crop-centred (cowpea, cotton, coffee and cereals) issues. The report also contains a summary of the recommendations made by seminar ...

A few members of the Gossypium (cotton) genus are cultivated for the production of elongated single-celled fibers valued worldwide at about $20 billion annually at the farm gate, and which sustain one of the world’s largest industries (textiles) with an annual worldwide economic impact of about $500 billion. In a number of ways, cotton production ...

With limited water resources to divert for agriculture, innovations aimed at increasing efficient use of irrigation water must be developed. Among the means to survive the consequences of water scarcity and yet to sustain high crop production under irrigated agriculture with decreasing share of water, deficient irrigation programs are highly ...

The growing global population poses the challenge to the scientific community of doubling or tripling the food, feed and fiber production by the year 2050. Biotechnology can make a significant contribution to this effort. This volume reviews the use of biotechnology in cotton, which is the leading plant fiber crop worldwide and grown commercially ...

Cotton production today is not to be undertaken frivolously if one expects to profit by its production. If cotton production is to be sustainable and produced profitably, it is essential to be knowledgeable about the growth and development of the cotton plant and in the adaptation of cultivars to the region as well as the technology available. In ...

Requisite forms for some of the most extensively regulated activities and businesses in California. Most forms relate to transactions with the regulatory agencies, but also include administrative and some litigation forms. Elections forms include voter registration, ballots, election contests, and recalls. Fish and game forms include applications ...

AgBiotech Reporter provides an authoritative overview of the global agricultural biotechnology industry. It covers every sector of the industry from seed development to end use. Published every two weeks, it reports on established food and feed commodity crops, including soybeans, maize, canola, cotton, sugar beet and rice, as well as minors and ...